- Understand: Building, informing, and elevating the evidence base, including evidence from lived experience of health inequity, to better understand and eliminate health inequities
- Translate: Communicating the evidence in a timely and culturally appropriate manner to bring understanding of the strongest science to this working to advance health equity
- Engage: Ensuring that key stakeholders working at every level to eliminate health inequities are provided the evidencerelated tools they need to ensure their effectiveness
- Learn: Learning in real time from our activities to ensure effective and equitable evaluation and metrics of impact
- Project Development, Management, and Administration : Designs and manages complex programs. Develops and oversees program strategy, budget, and staffing requirements. Assembles expert committees and guides these committees in the consensus-building process. Leads convening activities such as Action Collaboratives, forums, or workshops. Communicates and coordinates with committee chair(s) and other members of the committee(s), working group(s) or planning group(s). Supports committee members, forum members, workshop participants, etc. in all aspects of work. Identifies and gathers research materials.
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- Communication, Dissemination, and Information Management : Collaborates with experts and sponsors from federal, state, and local government agencies, foundations, academic institutions, and other organizations. Represents the Culture of Health Program and the National Academy of Medicine within and outside of the National Academies. Where applicable, works cross-functionally to plan and implement communications activities related to assigned programs or projects.
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NAM Culture of Health Program - Washington, United States - National Academy of Sciences
Description
Job Description Summary:
COVER LETTER REQUIRED
About the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), established in 1970 under the name Institute of Medicine (IOM), is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine; the natural, social, and behavioral sciences; and beyond.
With the authority of the 1863 Congressional Charter of the National Academy of Sciences requested and signed by President Abraham Lincoln, the NAM serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as adviser to the nation and the international community.
The NAM's mission is to advance science, inform policy, and catalyze action to achieve human health, equity, and well-being.About the Program
The NAM Culture of Health Program (CoHP) is an ongoing collaborative effort with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to identify evidence-based strategies to address the systems and structures, including societal conditions, that support equitable good health for everyone living in the United States.
With its placement in the National Academy of Medicine, the CoHP serves as the principal steward for leading the building of a solid scientific knowledge base to guide efforts to eliminate health disparities, and to equip diverse leaders and audiences with a comprehensive understanding of the necessary systemic and structural changes.
The program has been structured around certain key features that build upon and reinforce each other:
The NAM seeks an experienced and highly motivated leader with a deep foundational commitment to growing the science base in health equity and facilitating its spread, scale, and actionability.
The Program Director will oversee and manage the continued development and execution of the NAM's Culture of Health Program and its operations, including program funding, work plans, budgets, and staffing, and ensuring the program meets its stated objectives.
The Director will lead the program in increasing the gathering and stewarding the maintenance of science base on the nature, causes, contributors, measurement and consequences of health inequities; enhancing its availability, recognition and use by multi-sectoral stakeholders; ensuring the engagement of people with lived experiences; oversee an ongoing process of continuous improvement in this respect, including accelerating the NAM's organizational capacity to center health equity in its activities, policies, practices, and culture.
This leader will also be responsible for active and ongoing evaluation of the activities, and identify and use indices, metrics, and results to identify the impact of the Program's work.
The successful candidate will have a passion for the National Academy of Medicine's vision and a commitment to advancing health equity; is a proactive, forward-looking leader and thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions; exercises good judgment in a variety of complex situations, with strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills; effectively balances multiple, often competing, priorities and assignments; and enjoys working in an entrepreneurial environment that is results- and mission-driven.
Experience in leading, stakeholder-driven public health and/or health policy initiatives, and experience working with senior organizational leaders, are strongly preferred.
Job Description:
Essential Job Duties:
Field Leadership:
Building on strong understanding and experience with developing and mobilizing information and evidence related to health equity, develops and implements activities that identifies key research into the causes, consequences, and solutions for health inequities; assembles scientific experts to explore priority needs in science and action; fosters collaborative outreach networks to stimulate synergy and progress from the national to the neighborhood levels.
Sponsor Stewardship :
Maintains ongoing relationships with major sponsors and develops new program areas, as indicated.
Conducts background research on topics for new programs, studies, or activities, and writes prospectuses and proposals for new and continuing funding.
Identifies potential sponsors. Raises funds for current and future projects. Negotiates funding with sponsors. Where applicable, manages funder/member/stakeholder relations.Financial Management :
Responsible for the financial management of the Culture of Health Program, including overseeing budget, schedule, and authorizing expenditures. As required, collaborates with financial staff to ensure compliance.
Team Management :
Supervises program or project staff, including delegating tasks and assignments and managing workloads. Ensures staff are appropriately trained and manages staff development. Mentors staff, initiates personnel actions, conducts performance reviews, interprets, and ensures consistent application of organizational policies.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Advanced knowledge of the scientific, technical, or policy issues in health care and public health, as well as of the leadership community in each aspect.
Minimum Education/Training Requirements:
Master's degree in a related field, or equivalent knowledge.
Minimum Experience:
Six years of related professional experience, two of which were in a supervisory capacity.
Demonstrated impact on the advancement of science or policy through the successful completion of National Academies' activities or equivalent outside activities.
Demonstrated high level of proficiency in conveying scientific, technical, and/or policy information in verbal and written form.Preferred Education/Training Requirements:
MD, PhD, DrPH in a related field, or equivalent knowledge.
Physical Capabilities:
Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time. Ability to travel.
Required Licenses, Certification or Registration:
None.
Supervisory Responsibilities/Controls:
This position will report to the NAM Deputy Executive Officer and will collaborate and coordinate closely with the NAM President on program strategy and execution.
Work Environment:
Hybrid Office/Telecommute environment, expected onsite percentage 40%, for at least the first several months, after which time you can discuss your onsite schedule with your supervisor.
Compensation Range:
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine support equity, fairness, and transparency in our compensation programs. An estimated compensation range for this position is $97,240 - $151,935.
Compensation offered to the selected candidate will be based on the candidate's relevant knowledge, skills, and work experience, commensurate with compensation of current employees in comparable positions with similar knowledge, skills, and work experience, and subject to budget parameters.
Note it is not typical for a candidate to be hired at the higher end of the range.The National Academies' Statement on Diversity and Inclusion:
We, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies), value diversity among our staff, members, volunteers, partners, vendors, and audiences.
We recognize that talent is broadly distributed in society and that many perspectives enhance the quality of our work and drive innovation and impact.
We pledge to cultivate a workplace culture and climate that promotes inclusion, belonging, accessibility, and anti-racism; upholds equity; and values the participation of all who are engaged in advancing our mission.
By embracing the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our programs, institutional policies and practices, and products, we will be able to better advise the nation on the most complex issues facing society and the world.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
It is the policy of the National Academies to recruit, hire, transfer, compensate, and promote people in all job categories and to administer all other personnel actions, terms and conditions of employment in a manner that is consistent with equal employment, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, medical condition for which a person has been rehabilitated or cured, marital status, family responsibilities, genetic information, political affiliation, personal appearance, matriculation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
It is also the institution's policy to recruit, hire, promote, and provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and covered veterans who are otherwise qualified.
Any qualification to be considered equivalent, in lieu of stated minimum, requires the prior approval of the Office of Human Resources.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job.
They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Some functions in this description may be specific to a particular unit of the National Academies and not applicable to other units.
Job Family:
PROG
Employee Type:
Employee
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
37.5
City/State:
Washington, District of Columbia
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